Have No Fear of Walking Alone into that Dark Night

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva My grandmother contracted the coronavirus. She lives alone. She’s in a risk group. These are difficult days. I am in a tower at one end of town, and she’s at the other end. Communication between us is done over the phone. It’s hard to be apart, […] >>

Let’s Assume, for a Moment, That God Exists

A documentary is a desperate attempt to document that which cannot be documented. Heresy thoughts of a veteran documentarian. A neighborhood in the city of Ramat Gan. A grocer, a watchmaker, dancers, sheep, a hairdresser, a furious prophet and more. Real? Staged? Fragmentary – like cell phone chats, like TV broadcasts, like life itself. Finally […] >>

Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

A personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase “The Banality of Evil,” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the connections between her life story and her thinking, through rare archival footage demonstrating the Banality of Evil. Her Ideas on the nature of Evil, pluralism, Freedom, […] >>

The Death of Cinema and My Father Too

A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short. >>

The Film Class

Filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks arrives to Rahat, a Bedouin town down in Israel’s Negev Dssert, to teach a group of Black Bedouin women a class in filmmaking. Rahat, partially populated by Black Bedouins who were originally brought to the Negev as slaves, is afflicted with pessimism, unemployment, poverty and violence. Kidnapped in Africa by Arab slave […] >>

Good Garbage

The Hebron Hills garbage dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of an eked-out livelihood for 200 Palestinian families from in and around the Palestinian village of Yatta. The stories of eleven-year-old Harun, seventeen-year-old Ibrahim, forty-year-old Yusuf, and sixty-year-old Badawi, expose a daily struggle for subsistence in an inescapable reality […] >>

I Am Not

Oren Levi is struggling to find his place in the world. Born in Guatemala and adopted by an Israeli couple as a baby, Oren had a troublesome childhood despite all the love and support of his family. Misdiagnosed with autism and mental illness, put into a psychiatric ward after a suicide attempt, he found it […] >>

Revived

At the end of a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron can’t find his bag. Without the bag he cannot return home. Sefi, the bartender, tries to help him. Their fates will be linked tonight. >>

Opening Night

Daniel, an Israeli film director, prepares for his debut premiere at a prestigious New York film festival, only to discover that his girlfriend’s ex, Amir, a big-shot Israeli director, is also in the competition. >>

Hitler’s Children

The Hoess family did everything they could to ignore the horror. The windows were boarded up so that they couldn’t see the chimneys and the gas chambers from their mansion. Family photos show children playing outside and other idyllic scenes that don’t betray the presence of the camp. The only things they couldn’t ignore, explains […] >>

The Partisan

The story of an Israeli woman and a mother of two girls leaving her country in search of her boyfriend who disappeared in the chaos of the civil war in eastern Ukraine. Her journey leads her to decide to enlist in the rebel forces and devote herself to the war. >>

Have You Heard About the Black Panthers?

In 1970, a protest movement led by young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Jerusalem burst into the public consciousness with its anti-establishment and sometimes, violent actions. They became known as the “Black Panthers.” Filmmaker Nissim Mossek, who was enchanted by the enthusiasm and sincere intentions of the rebellious youngsters, followed their revolutionary course, which he […] >>

The Champagne Spy

Paris 1962. Oded is 12 years old when his father reveals to him he’s a secret agent for the Israeli Mossad and makes him swear to secrecy because his life depends on it. When his father leaves on his mission to Cairo assuming the identity of Wolfgang Lotz – a German millionaire, ex Nazi, playboy […] >>

Haircut

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva I have never gone to a hairdresser. My mother is one, so I’ve never had to. For 40 years, her soft fingers have caressed, pinched and cut my hair in styles once fashionable in a distant land. During the lockdown, she cuts my hair from afar. >>

The Water Mark

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Isolated in his faraway home near the Dead Sea, the filmmaker’s conciseness drifts through the desert with the aid of his camera drone, which broadcasts live images from the outside world. Now all he has to do is figure out what these images mean. >>